The work continues

Dear Mother,

 

Man this week was extra frustrating. We went from 6 people on date to only 1. Mrs Kelcy was on vacation this whole week so she fell off date but were gonna continue to work with her. Sister Sippert fell off because she had to put the lessons on hold for this whole past week. And she just texted us last night and put this week on hold as well. Both spanish men, Hector and Ramiro, have not been home at all the past 2 weeks. We keep leaving cards saying when we'll stop by and they never answer. Heather is the other lady on date and her family is busy and sick so there waiting a little bit to resume the lessons. Then all the people we challenged to come to church who said they would... didn't.

But the miracles of this week were, we found 7 new. So we have a total of 21 investigators and Zarias baptism is scheduled for this saturday so we are praying like every 5 minutes that all works. But we just continue to set up appointments with all the people we have. We were able to set up quite a few for this upcoming week. Its just been frustrating because we walk out of alll the lessons and they go so well and were so convinced they'll keep their commitments and they never do. But o well we just keep doing our part and the ward is finally starting to help out. We have had diffrent members come up to us and say they want to do more and go on exchanges with is so were excited that the ward is starting recognize their role and hopefully do there part. Thats what we have been struggling with. 

I guess the coolest thing that happened this week was we help a referal from the Hermanas move and we got 4 out the 7 new investigators from that experience. But the move was awkward at first because we needed people with trucks and you'd think being in the south everyone would own one right? hahaha wrong. We sat around for an hour at the lady's house and then poeple finally showed up. Our ward mission leader is way awesome and feels bad that the ward is slacking and apologizes everytime for them hahha. But it doesn't matter Elder Perry and I just keep giving our best and we'll see what happens.

Its wierd that the Albrights are going home. We had a zone confrence last week and were having a 4 zone confrence next week for their farewell and so its wierd to be saying goodbye to them. Like it came to soon. But our mission made a video for President Riggs. Its called "Operation Windows of Heaven" its on youtube. Its all about how our baptism goal is 240 for the month of June and were at well i forgot but as of this week were at 201. You can see the Fredericksburg Zone for a little bit. Were the ones that walk out from the back of the cars to the front. (Im on the left wearing sunglasses next to a silver corola) and then when the circle chant is going on thats our zone. In the middle in elder Kessler. Hes from southern cali and was a redshirt freshman for th U of U. He came out with our group. The rest of our zone is in a cricle and he says "Whats our goal???" and we say "240!!" and then he says "How are we gonna get that??" and we say "Baptize!!" and then he says "Who's house is this??" and we say "Albrights!!!" and then he says "Whos house is it gonna be?" and we yell "Riggs!!" and then we break out in a brawl hahhaha. You can see me for a split second as they pan the inside of the circle. That was reallly fun to make and then see at Zone confrence. So were all really excited for president Riggs and just trying to do our best before he gets here. Well the work continues.

 

Love

 

Elder Powell